OmniFocus 4.7 Request: Hotkey for Planned Today

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I know we’ve already got “Apply Forecast Tag”, but I think it would be helpful to have a hotkey for “Plan for Today” that sets the Planned Date on a selected task to today.

Planned dates seem incredibly powerful long term (a calendar perhaps?), but in the short term I would love to be able to plan things for today with a hotkey (and unplan them as well).

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Interested in a plugin? You could assign it a keyboard shortcut.

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I mean it’s pretty trivial to make one (and perhaps one should be posted just for funzies) but I think that this should just be included as standard, for the simple reason that a LOT of people will be using this.

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Until this gets added to the product you can use the following script, which respects the Default time for planned dates setting, and assign a keyboard shortcut to it: Planned for Today.omnifocusjs (1.1 KB)

/*{
    "author": "Patrick",
    "targets": ["omnifocus"],
    "type": "action",
    "identifier": "com.patrick.SetPlannedDateToToday",
    "version": "1.0",
    "description": "Set the Planned Date of the selected tasks to today",
    "label": "Plan for Today",
    "mediumLabel": "Plan for Today",
    "longLabel": "Set Planned Date to Today",
    "paletteLabel": "Plan for Today",
    "image": "signpost.right"
}*/
(() => {
  const action = new PlugIn.Action(selection => {
    // 1. Fetch the default time string (e.g. "08:00" or "00:00:00")
    let timeString = settings.objectForKey('DefaultPlannedTime') || "00:00:00";
    const parts = timeString.split(":").map(Number);
    const [h = 0, m = 0, s = 0] = parts;

    // 2. Construct “today at default time”
    const cal = Calendar.current;
    const todayStart = cal.startOfDay(new Date());
    const dc = new DateComponents();
    dc.hour   = h;
    dc.minute = m;
    dc.second = s;
    const plannedToday = cal.dateByAddingDateComponents(todayStart, dc);

    // 3. Apply to every selected task
    selection.tasks.forEach(task => {
      task.plannedDate = plannedToday;
    });
  });

  return action;
})();
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